Bridgetina, ou, Les philosophes modernes
By: trad. de l'anglais sur la deuxième édition; par M.B ......
Publisher: Chez le Normant, libraire, rue des Prêtres-St.-Germain-l'Auxerrois
Published: 1802
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Translated from: eng
Subjects: Modern Philosophy; Fiction; Women; Social conditions
Other titles: Philosophes modernes
Work titles: Memoirs of modern philosophers
Notes: Translation of Elizabeth Hamilton's Memoirs of modern philosophers. Cf. v.1, Preface, p. xv-xviii.

A series of humorous sketches, purporting to be a novel. Attacks the French philosophes, and the radical set of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft.

Each v. has half title and frontispiece.

Vol. 1: [4], xviii, [2], 317, [3] p. (last [3] p. blank), [1] leaf of plates; v.2: [4], 357, [3] p. (last [3] p. blank), [1] leaf of plates; v.3: [4], 343, [1] p. (last p. blank), [1] leaf of plates ; v.4: [4], 328 p., [1] leaf of plates)

Frontispieces signed: Binet D.; Mariage S.

Cf. The English novel 1770-1829, volume 2, 1800, 39.

Bibliothèque nationale (France). Catalogue général des livres imprimés de la Bibliothèque nationale: auteurs, volume 68, column 169

This copy lacks v.1, p. [1]-[2], 3rd group (blank?), p. [2]-[3] at end (blank), v.2, p. [2]-[3] at end (blank).

Bound in contemporary mottled half sheep, with blue paste-paper boards and marbled enepapers; spines gilt, each with 1 tan lettering-piece and 1 green numbering-piece, lower edges stained yellow.